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People rarely talk about this but the reason why countries have universal healthcare is because the powers that be understand that for society to work people have to work so when we or our family get sick it’s important to get us back to health. Harsh but true. It’s the same reason why European countries try to find a balance between work and paid days off. A stressed out worker who ends up crashing is no good in the long run.

Which is why it makes no sense that the US doesn’t have universal healthcare. I had no idea how overworked you guys are until I started watching videos were American’s abroad are baffled by “how little” they are expected to work. Some like it, some miss the grind, but they’re all like “Wtf? Why am I not even allowed to work extra hours?”

Universal healthcare just seems like the logical cynical choice for a society that expects its people to work so much, ya know?

The lack of public healthcare is what makes us overwork ourselves. Because having a full-time job is the only way that most of us can get insurance, so our very lives depend on serving our employers. So we have to make sure that we appease our employers so we can keep our jobs or else we don't get to go to the doctor or get medicine. (Yes, technically you can go to the doctor if you don't have health insurance but it is so expensive that it is practically unfeasible.)

Also since healthcare in the US is basically a privilege, it makes many people who have it to feel proud to have earned said privilege. Whereas if they just had healthcare and didn't have to work extra for it they would not be as devoted to giving their lives over to their work. It is to keep us scared and vulnerable and reliant on our employers so that they can treat us however they want.

And it doesn't matter that research shows how overworking and stress is bad for us in the future. Nothing in our country is set up with "the long run" in mind. Everything is based on what is going to make the 1% the most money Right Now! It is the exact same way we treat climate change. Yes it will be better later, but the oil executives want to be rich today. It's how our whole system is set up.

Powers that be don't understand shit. Every good thing ever has had to be wrest out from the clawlike grip of powerful elites, and then fought for to keep. There are no places or times where rich people are delighted to not be able to exploit people for profit in one or another area of human endeavor because--due to their great enlightenment--they realize it's better for everyone that way, including themselves. There are just times and places where they have lost a fight or two

I feel like the psyops are back…

Ok let’s go over this again, for those with short memories:

The psyops work by taking (screenshotting or paraphrasing) REAL leftist takes by REAL people, (very often American POC,) generally where they are upset or discouraged about the us government or democrats specifically.

Then, the psyop either adds to the post (or in a separate post) something to direct the conversation into “things will never change” “voting does nothing” “politicians are all the same” etc.

The POINT of the psyop is to make leftists who agree with the REAL person who made the original post ALSO agree with the psyop, by conflating the two as being the same person, or at least being on the same side.

anyone who tells you not to vote is not on your side

Voting works or they wouldn't care if you did it

I know her tumblr would be fire

One of my sister's friends posted something about her attic being creepy and it ended up getting 50k notes as everyone argued about why it was creepy, whether it was real, and if it was actually just perfectly reasonable.

Candace would have dozens of posts like that with her describing some crazy shenanigans of her brothers and a couple weirdly out of focus pics attached.

They'd blow up initially with people scoffing about how dumb it is but then someone pipes up with "oh yeah the rocket race around the world was crazy when they came through our town". And suddenly other people are adding their own photos or reblogs.

Sadly when Candice thinks she has proof and shows her mom, Tumblr's search function tells her they can't find any records of her own post.

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Dozens of Jewish activists drop a huge banner from San Francisco's Colt Tower sending a message to mayor London Breed not to veto the ceasefire resolution that was passed by the SF Board of Supervisors 10 days ago.

Tumblr is like "isn't it weird that Christians never think about this fairly obvious implication of their own theology?", then proceeds to independently re-invent an eight-hundred-year-old heresy that caused three separate wars.

Can we get more details please???

It doesn't really help to specify that you're talking about modern Christians who've never studied their religion and only practice it because their parents did, either.

I promise you a lot of casual Christians already subscribe to the exact weird heresy you just invented; in fact, I'd go so far as to say that most casual Christians subscribe to at least one of the weird heresies you only get by massively overthinking shit. It's just that because they've never formally studied, they don't realise that, and honestly think their take on the matter is what all Christians believe.

I have literally run into a guy whose main source of scriptural exegesis was having watched the Superbook anime as a kid who'd managed to reconstruct docetism from first principles. Genuinely had no idea he was a heretic – he thought everybody thought Jesus was a hologram!

The concept of heresy and the minutiae that Christians have historically excommunicated or killed each other over baffles me. Like go get yourselves a Talmud and maybe you’ll calm down.

brain sees vague fuzzy thing with apparent tail and goes WEIRD MICE

More train than dragon but I fold, metro train from the DC area cause public transit is cool

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i avoid printers at all costs but deep down i think i should've been a printer. life so easy. i sit there all squarelike and when someone has a minor task for me i goFUCK YOU

me and my brother: *explains how adhd affects us*

our parents: that's not adhd, that's normal

me and my brother:

When I was a kid I was talking to my psychiatrist with my dad and I mentioned some stuff and he went "let me get an ADHD questionnaire" and Dad was like "I mean, that's all normal stuff for me" and he went "okay, let me get two ADHD questionnaires".

We both forgot to fill them out.

As someone who took etiquette lessons, politeness is an incredibly effective tool for disarming bigots. You can either force them to reconsider their words/actions by directly and calmly confronting their behavior (by using the rules of society in your favor), or you can dip entirely while they appear to be in the wrong.

Both options are great.

Because the thing is, when bigots pick fights, they are 100% counting on you to get louder than them. Or meaner. They want you to react emotionally and provide fodder for their 'You're Too Emotionally Immature To Understand' cannon.

What they aren't expecting you to do is say one of the following phrases in a polite, concerned tone:

For those of you who'd are spiteful and/or dealing with Fundamentalists/Evangelicals/generally shitty Christians:

And my all time favorite:

"It sounds to me like there are some seriously dark and angry forces at work in your heart."

(Nothing stops a Christian bigot in their tracks faster than implying the Devil is causing their bigotry. But you MUST be calm, polite, and gentle with your tone and wording. It is absolutely fair to twist the rules and play them at their own game, but you gotta play hard.)

TLDR: It's much faster to use etiquette, politeness, and rhetoric reversal when eviscerating idiots online and in person, because they aren't expecting you to weaponize their behaviors back in their direction. Don't get angry, get spitefully polite! :)

One quiet day on the farm, the Little Red Hen found some wheat seeds and decided to make bread.

"Who will help me plant these seeds?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Horse "But I'm a workhorse, and I'm too busy moving carts around."

And so the Little Red Hen planted the seeds by herself. And they grew into bountiful golden crops.

"Who will help me harvest the wheat?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Dog "But I'm a guarddog, and I'm too busy keeping away burglars and predators."

And so the Little Red Hen harvested the wheat herself and made it into flour.

"Who will help me bake the flour?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"I would." said the Pig "But I'm a mother of 5 newborn piglets, and I'm too busy taking care of my young."

And so the Little Red Hen baked the bread herself into twenty beautiful loaves.

"Who will help me eat the bread?" the Little Red Hen asked.

"We would." said the Farm Animals. "But we're ashamed, for we didn't do anything to make the bread."

"Nonsense!" said the Little Red Hen. "You, Horse, helped move around the stones that built my oven. You, Dog, kept me safe while I worked. And you, Pig, are raising a new generation of Farm Animals, who will too contribute to our Farm one day. You've all helped me so much by simply being you."

"Besides," the Little Red Hen added. "I couldn't possibly eat all the loaves on my own, most of them would go to waste. Come, eat with me."

And so the Little Red Hen and the Farm Animals ate the bread together. And all saw their own, and each other's, worth.

Protect trans kids at all costs 💜